The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

PESSYPAcKER is the name Of rich Phil
adelphian. ,
A PIANO is the latest article to be made
out Of paper.
CRoP prospects throughout Prussia are
most favorable.
THE cost of pensions for the year will
reach s76, 900.
A MAN in Pennsylvania laughed so hard
as to break his jaw.
A SUMMER hat liked by London bellies is
named the "Wild West"
PHILADELPHIA claims to have many Eng
lsh walnut trees q century old.
NEW and improved style OF potato bug
his made its appearance at Galena.
ASPANIsn officer has invented war boat
that will stay under water four days.
BULGARIA and Hawaii are "storm CEN
ters" in politics just at the present time.
CHICAGO has arranged for an additional
tunnel to increase the water supply to
that city.
A DEAD man is the sole inhabitant of the
once flourishing town Of Solitaire, near
Kingston, A. I.
A CHEROKEE half-breed, who has no
Indian Territory.
Mrs. r. L. HUGHEs, of Lexington, Ga,
owns butter dish which her English an
cestors ate out of In 1850.
BOY only three years Of age was put
into Jail in st. Augustine, Fla, for steal
ing four plums from a garden.
TEXAS has $50 counties, is as large as
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wis
consin and Michigan combined.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, plays
with all the little children near the execu-
tive mansion in Albany every day.
PEW days ago, for the first time in the
history of Cumberland County, N. j., q
colored man served on a coroner's jury.
ELIJAH YoUNGBLooD, a farmer Of Coffee
County, Ga, has killed 996 deer, 240 wild
cats and 81 panthers between his crops.
The largest olive-grower in this country
is Mr.. Ellwood Cooper, Of Santa Barbara,
CAL, who has sixty acres in bearing olive
trees.
The Chicago communists and socialists
are said to be arranging to proceed en-
nadSse to San Domingo to settle there as a
colony.
HIS flock, in Edinboro, Pa, have raised
Rev. w. w. Dale's salary because he gave
an insolent tavern-keeper thorough
drubbing.
THE venerable Simon Cameron, now
about ninety years Of age, has sailed for
a tour OF Europe combining recreation and
instruction.
A ST. LOUIS court decides that the law
prohibiting the playing of games on Sun
day applies to gambling games, and not to
games like baseball
The statue Of John G. Breckenridge
which is to be unveiled at Lexington, KY,
in October, is now being cast in New York.
Valentine is the artist.
1 AN Australian doctor eases up on the
bereaved family by advertising that he
Will pay half the funeral expenses in cases
where he is not successful.
JAMES II. RICHARDSON, executor of the
late Colonel Ed. Richardson, Of Mississip-
pi, has the biggest cotton crop in the
world. II covers 80 900 acres.
1T Is estimated that seven hundred mil
lion dollars will have been spent on new
buildings in this country in 1887. Booms
have not been confined to real estate.
AN exhibition of useful insects and
their products, with noxious insects and
specimens Of their injuries, will be open
In Paris from August "a to September 2S
FROM the May salary Of New York
city school teacher who receives 800 a
year there was deducted one cent be-
cause she had one day been tardy two
minutes.
The insurance companies have been
urged to come forward with some means
of lessening the frightful fire losses in
this country, estimated for this year at
$l80,000,OO0.
GENERAL IMBoDEN, Of Confederate cav
airy fame, recently stated in letter that
II Virginia's mineral wealth had been as
fully developed in 1860 as now there would
have been no war.
MRS. CLEvEIANp's endurance of recon-
ton Misunderstanding is such that observers
ascribe IL to the use of dumb bells. She Is
said to be graceful gymnast and very
fond Of calisthenics.
A PARTY OF female mutes are occupying
cottage at Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, and
the place Is known as "The Dumb Bellies
Retreat" 1t Is not good place to excr-
else the vocal organs.
ONE Of the wealthiest women in Chicago
Is Mrs. Muncel Talcott, childless widow
OF three score years. Her income is $50, 900
per annum, aud of this sum she devotes
$4,000 TO local charity.
A DELAWARE man rolled off his veranda
TO the ground, distance of twenty one
inches, to make fun for the baby, and the
third time he tried 1t he broke his neck
and left baby fatherless.
JAcoB sEIIosAS, Of Michigan, 10 a mil.
lionaire, and director OF nine banks and
four railroads. He Is less than fivo feet
high and went TO Michigan twenty five